It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness.

It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged.

What is permissible is not always honorable.

Every man's friend is no man's friend.

There is a certain virtue in every good man, which night and day stirs up the mind with the stimulus of glory, and reminds it that all mention of our name will not cease at the same time with our lives, but that our fame will endure to all posterity.

Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)

Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth.